| Show TO a REED NEW VARIETY OP OF CORN FOR foil SHORT SEASONS the develop development merit of a variety of corn that will grow and mature amature in a short season of cool weather is to be attempted by the corn ot of the united states department of at agriculture short season varieties are ara already grown to some extent along alone the northern edge ot of the united states some ot of which mature in less than 80 days but they require re high temperature during the grow growing ing season there are places in ili the tha north west its as in idaho montana and wyoming ahern the season is short and where there Is not enough warm growing weather to mature those these short season varieties the development of a variety that would mature under tinder the climatic conditions of that section ot of the country is very desirable and would make it possible to extend th acorn growing area considerably sider ably with this project in mind P F D richey agronomist in charge of corn investigations and it A emerson of cornell university rom fitly mado made a trip to the andean highlands of south africani to collect sample carl ealos of corn for uso use in combining with our season varieties the corn it in these MOB 0 high altitudes matures in it climate 20 degrees lo grees colder than that flint of this couil country try and should supply the cool weather characteristics characteristic tic for combining with tho the short reason characteristics of our own native early varieties varlet loa somo some sam plus ples were collected whenever Who nover cheso south american varieties havo have boon tried in the U ft 3 thoy they havo have not proved to bo be adapted no na varieties nor have our native high altitudes in ili south auto america rica it Is bol loved however that a combination of the de ran can be effected through crossing und and brooding breeding it will be a longtime long time proposition hut tile the plant bleeders breeders bre eders edens the lio encouraged to bellove in the feasibility a 0 atho project by tho the results obtained in other plant breeding work at the department |
